Well I went to see the Asian Art Museum’s Buddhist Silk Road art in the Magao caves. This was all very good. I especially liked a lot of the nearly abstract quality of many of the figures and spent enjoyable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Sketches
As many of my friends may know, I kind of got priced out of the Emerald City Comic Convention three years ago… and while I’ve been able to kind of attend by helping friends I kind of came to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the rest of Emerald City Comicon went okay I guess. Regrettably I got called to help a friend moving a whole lot of stuff to a Boating swap market on Friday afternoon and having to be at the swap[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The last time I went to the zoo was also the first time I’d gone in a weekend for a while so I really wasn’t expecting to get into my zone with the crowds nonetheless I think I got a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well with spring definitely here I decided to inflict another sketch challenge on myself , the theme this time, nursery rhymes! Now hear me out it’s a lot cooler than it sounds! I happen to own a copy of The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today’s poem was two lines about a gunner and is showing me how much of an uphill slog I’m looking at. When I looked at the two lines I had to ask first doesn’t that second line kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe i’m finally getting into my grove on this thing, or maybe it’s just a fiddler performing to fish is an easier image to visualize than a gunner or an old lady silently crying. For some reason while I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s poem, “I married my wife on Sunday” was probably the biggest challenge of this challenge yet not just that It was hard to squeeze in the whole narrative (doing it in a half hour made it sloppy) but also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a bad feeling that this one, March wind and April Showers is the first dud of the batch. I blame being a very simple image which I rushed on making a huge mess.
With this one, “Winter’s Thunder” I’ve had two nature rhymes in a row… I think this one came out a lot better though it’s kind of hard to do a oncoming thunderstorm with a pencil… monochrome really doesn’t do them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…